The list of things which don't make sense to me with this whole thing is many pages long, but here are a some from memory.
Late January and the month of February:
The media playing down the numbers coming out of China which suggested potentially up to an approx 2.5% death rate, many times that of the death rate of the average flu season potentially.
WHO states that the virus isn't transmitted between people.
During this same time Trump Admin is called racist and unnecessarily reactionary for closing international flights from first China, and then again later Europe and other parts of Asia.
Into March and well after the first noted community spread here:
The media is suddenly going crazy about how everyone was going to die from COVID, and that the Trump Admin is killing people because they didn't lock the whole country down earlier, couldn't supply all of the medical providers with PPE (providers who are supposed to be doing this on their own), and they had delayed a test which was about as accurate as the flip of a coin.
Models come out which predict over 2 million people will die, with little to no additional data.
Later in March, during the freak-out, draconian lock down measures are instituted by many states for healthy (not ill) people, which were completely untested measures and still remain nebulous at best...but at least some of them kind of made sense initially. These are instituted with the express intent of flattening the curve so time can be used to ramp up PPE production within the US and ensure that hospitals would not be overrun....of course that goal post has been moved now, at least by the media and many state governments.
Trump Admin is derided by the media for not taking national control over some states, despite over 2 years of a constant media drumbeat about Trump being a dictator.
Some state governors/state health directors make poor decisions, generally by dictating things from the top down without consultation with regional health districts or providers on the ground....e.g. sending COVID+ patients back to nursing homes, decreasing buses so that more people are crammed onto fewer buses, closing down parks so that fewer people are crammed into smaller public areas, controlling medications even after shortages are addressed instead of leaving this to local treatment teams, etc.
The media and progressives still come out against the Feds controlling our borders, and are still silent at best regarding the danger of China controlling production of so many of our essential goods, including medical goods which were needed in this pandemic, and which have been continually found to be in short supply or recalled by our FDA, even during the 15 years prior to the pandemic.
April:
Criminals are let out of prison, including young criminals...to go where?
Some data starts coming in from here and around the world. Media freak out continues, with the media only reporting on data which perpetuates their narrative, despite empty hospitals around most of the nation.
People, particularly those who are heavy media consumers, are afraid to go to the hospital despite other serious health problems, with regional health district recommendations completely ignored. Who knows how many people this will kill? No one knows yet.
Congress spends more money than we can ever pay back (and according to many, it is still not enough), enslaving future generations, and decreasing how far our future tax dollars go in providing govt services forever.
Many people, "like on this forum every day", react to every little far less than perfect study with often generalized strong opinions (some of which would infringe upon Constitutional rights) about actions and outcomes for the future that are scarcely warranted by the minimal available data. Possible correlation doesn't equal causation, in vitro studies doesn't always equal in vivo results, etc., etc.
Many state govt's on the other hand are afraid to change course at all despite new data. In fact, they double down on restrictions and enforcement, to include forcing people into their houses which many studies show is the number one place to get COVID.
Later in April:
Not only Trump and some state governments are getting called murderers if they open any portion of increasingly Unconstitutional lock downs, but now people who are protesting some of the draconian measures, are being called Nazi white supremacist murderers.
The UN suggests that 135 million people are already now on the edge of starvation, just with the disruption in economies to this date from the COVID response, but that up to 1 billion people world wide could be starving (by next year I think, can't remember the that date) if the current COVID economic shutdowns are continued.
Governors tell people that they can turn up or down their restrictions on people at a whim, and don't expect to release that power until a vaccine is produced....despite that the likelihood of a really effective vaccine in the near future is slim to none. Also, if no vaccine is available, they talk of the need for restrictions until testing and tracing is almost universal...this for a disease often without symptoms, and with Ag testing that is not very sensitive, and Ab testing which is not very specific.
Epidemiologists and doctors, who suggest that for a large portion of the population COVID is likely only as deadly or less deadly than the flu and that maybe these people should be allowed to get COVID sooner rather than later, are called wackos and fake news by the media, tech companies, and state governments and even some medical societies...despite that none of their data or conclusions are challenged on a scientific basis.
Police have time to set up stings to arrest hair stylists who cut hair at people's homes or have time to scour parks to arrest people for not social distancing appropriately, but they don't have time to stand at a busy park, trailhead, or boat ramp to encourage people to use good anti-infection precautions or suggest a nearby park or boat ramp.
Some prior recommendations are now turned into authoritarian measures which are enforced under fine or imprisonment...beaches are closed, people are forced to wear masks outside, people can't attend church even while in cars, people are arrested for not social distancing outside, citizens are encouraged to report others for not social distancing, people can't get a haircut/go fishing/or buy seeds but can shop for marijuana & alcohol.
Govt's that allow people to work and provide for themselves (with people using their own judgement to keep from getting sick) and people who don't wear a mask at all times and in all areas of the country are both told that they are killing people now? So are these "people" that are being killed, the kind of people that were never going to get COVID at all?
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